Journalistic Works - News Articles, Features And More of P. ATOGEWE WEDAM

The delivery of health care services, especially primary health care in the Kumbogsigo community, a suburb of the Bolgatanga East District in the Upper East Region, has received a boost following a donation of assorted medical equipment to health authorities in the area. The Medical Equipment as displayed at the durbar Chairman of the Kumbogsigo Development Association, Commissioner of Police C.O.P Mr. Patrick Atampubire Akologo made the donation on behalf of his colleagues over the weekend at the celebration of the annual Anongkua Festival by the chiefs and people of the Kumbogsigo community. The festival is a yearly traditional gathering at which, the chiefs and people celebrate in thanks-giving to their gods and ancestors for the bountiful harvest of the previous year. During the celebrations, the traditional leadership also solicits and raise funds for the execution of various development projects across the community. C.O.P Akolgo revealed that the package, made up of delivery b...

Vice President of the Republic of Ghana and the Running Mate to President Nana Addo of the New Patriotic Party [NPP] in the 2020 general elections, H.E Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia has terminated his campaigns in the Upper East Region following the demise of Ghana’s Ex-President, Jerry John Rawlings. Dr. Bawumia Speaking at the Bongo Durbar     Dr. Bawumia formally announced this termination at Zuarungu in the Bolgatanga East District of the region around 15:47 GMT at which time himself and his entourage had arrived there to address a durbar of the Chiefs and people of the area on the last leg of his three-day campaign tour of the region. He had earlier in the day, addressed similar durbars in Bongo in the Bongo District and in Sakote in the Nabdam district. He told the gathering that President Nana Addo had issued an official statement on the ex-president’s passing in which he declared seven days of national mourning in memory of late J.J Rawlings and the subsequent suspen...

  The Vice President of the Republic, H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has started a three-day campaign tour of the Upper East Region with a passionate call on the chiefs and people as well as electorates, to vote massively for the governing New Patriotic Party [NPP] stressing that, the party had a better development record than immediate past-regime. He disclosed that the government had so far undertaken a total of 1,488 projects across the sectors in Upper East region with as many as, 688 of them completed. Dr. Bawumia at the Mirigu durbar   Speaking during a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of Sirigu in the Kassena-Nankana West District where the day’s tour began, Dr. Bawumia noted that the North of Ghana had lagged behind in development for long, the reason the Nana Addo-led government had implemented several targeted policies in the almost-four years of its administration, geared at creating jobs and lifting the citizenry out of poverty. He cited a number of policies and inte...

  About 61,000 farmers have been supplied with 78 thousand cashew seedlings under the climate change component of the Ghana Productive Safety Net Programme in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. The project, being implemented by the Department of Agriculture aims at strengthening safety net systems for extremely poor households as well as mitigating the negative impact of climate change, creating employment for the rural masses and providing the necessary raw materials for the 1-District 1-Factory initiative. Hon. Ayinbisa [DCE] speaking at the event   The Bongo District Chief Executive [DCE], Hon. Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga who made these disclosures in his keynote address at the 36th National Farmers’ Day celebration, also observed that the agricultural sector will be more resilient if the full potential of the annual dry season period is harnessed effectively to ensure an all-year round farming scheme.   He further indicated that, four dams of appreciable capacitie...